What is Ocular Plastic Surgery?
            Each person deals with their wishes and motivations in a particular way, the way we search for happiness reflects our unique self. To provide more joviality to your look, soften the marks of time or even recover from traumas or pathologies are human wishes which are done with increasing success and better results.
            The Ocular Plastic Surgery is a expertise in which the Hospital de Olhos de Minas Gerais acts confidently with its medical staff allied with a technological structure composed of the most advanced in the world.
            The Eyelid Esthetic Plastic Surgery nowadays, reaches results quite expressive and is today an important ally in the search for high self-esteem and physical satisfaction. Eliminating the bags underneath the eyes, the excess on the eyelids, correct it’s format, the excessive tearing and dry eye syndrome, in addition to the esthetic benefit and joviality gained with those procedures.


What is the importance of ocular plastic surgery?
            Plastic Surgery today is also important in the process of recovering from an accident, for it not only recuperates the functional and esthetical part of the ocular region, but its also indicated in the treatment of tumors, vascular alterations, facial paralyses, neuropathies and other pathologies which can damage the appearance or ocular function ability.
            Another technique well known in plastic surgery is the application of the Botulinum Toxin. It’s a simple procedure with potential for great results, granting joviality and eliminating wrinkles or time marks.
            Ocular Plastic Surgery is also known indicated for definite treatment of dry eye and other pathologies of the lachrymal duct, characterized by itching, blurred vision, dry eye sensation or excessive tearing and discomfort at light.
            Whatever is the patient’s necessity or aspiration, in the plastic surgery department in the Hospital de Olhos de Minas Gerias, he will have answers to his questions and doubts, additionally with careful pre-operatorio exams which will determine the best indicated procedures and the result prospects. In general, surgeries have a small or medium duration, are done under colirium anesthesia and do not require the patient to be interned.


When is it advisable undergoing Ocular Plastic Surgery?
This kind of surgery has many indications and specific benefits according to the type of procedure:

RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Indications:
- Esthetic reconstruction and functional pos-trauma.
- Treatment of the alterations caused by Hyperthyroidism (Greve’s disease).
- Treatment of ocular tumors, benign and malign.
- Vascular alterations.
- Face Paralysis.
- Essential Blefaroespasms and some neuropathies.
Benefits:
- Regain of functional vision capacity.
- Ocular health promotion, hindered by traumas or diseases.
- Increase of patient’s self esteem.


ESTHETIC SURGERY OF THE EYELID
Indications:
- To eliminate excess fat in eyelid
- To extract bags underneath the eye
- Treatment for excessive tearing
- Reversion in tired appearance
Benefits:
- Rejuvenation and improvement of facial expression
- Reduction of the sensation of weight and tiredness in the eyelids
- Increase of the visual field
- End of the excessive tearing
- Increase of patient’s self esteem


APPLICATION OF THE BOTULINUM TOXIN
Indications:
- Treatment of essential Blefaroespasms
- Elimination of wrinkles and marks of expression
Benefits:
- Esthetic rejuvenation and improvement of facial expression
- End of the excessive tearing
- Increase of patient’s self esteem


SURGERY OF THE LACRIMIMAL SYSTEM AND DRY EYE
Indications:
- Limiting ocular alterations, such as Sjögren Syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- Dry Eye Syndrome.

Diagnosis and Treatment in the Hospital de Olhos de Minas Gerais
Innumerable patients have already benefited from the available treatment and can, today, relish in the comfort of a vision with quality. If interested in setting an appointment – contact us: +55 (31) 3289.2030 or secretaria@holhos.com.br.